Development Engineer 4

Comcast brings together the best in media and technology. We drive innovation to create the world's best entertainment and online experiences. As a Fortune 50 leader, we set the pace in a variety of innovative and fascinating businesses and create career opportunities across a wide range of locations and disciplines. We are at the forefront of change and move at an amazing pace, thanks to our remarkable people, who bring cutting-edge products and services to life for millions of customers every day. If you share in our passion for teamwork, our vision to revolutionize industries and our goal to lead the future in media and technology, we want you to fast-forward your career at Comcast.

Job Summary

We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated engineer to join our team and contribute towards developing and operating our real-time communication platform. You would be responsible for developing and operating backend components of a real-time communications platform including but not limited to VoIP softphone, Conferencing, Screen Share, Voicemail, Call Recording, and Restful API Services. You will be part of a DevOps team made up of diverse individuals with varied experience levels from Junior to Expert. Looking for a Senior Developer to assess the existing platform and work with the team to scale, harden, optimize, and build new features to improve the customer experience. This is an excellent opportunity for a motivated engineer to make an impact while making meaningful contributions to our expanding Unified Communications business.

Job Description

Who we are:

The Unified Communications Engineering organization at Comcast innovates, develops, delivers, and operates voice and unified communications products to our residential, commercial, and wholesale customers. As a member of this team, you will be part of a high-performance engineering organization focused on providing the most reliable, secure, and high-quality experience at scale to our customers. Our teams achieve this outcome by continuously improving our products utilizing modern DevSecOps practices in an end-to-end approach. Our culture focuses on constant learning, embracing diversity, fostering inclusivity, empowering individuals, dynamic collaboration, and promoting open communications. Comcast voice and unified communications products set the standard in a highly competitive marketplace, and it is through our technology driven approach that we achieve the best customer experience for our products.

Job Responsibilities:

• Partners with Engineering Project Manager to provide consultative direction and develops long-term objectives and plans to determine resources, technology, and course of action to achieve results.
• Works with Other members of cross-functional teams, joint ventures, third-party vendors and the Company's product managers and marketing teams to deliver quality products, in a timely fashion, that meet defined requirements.
• Establishes and maintains working relationships within product development teams, joint ventures, vendors, and contractors.
• Participates in Company product lifecycle process. contributes to and/or creates product and technical requirements, detailed design documents including transaction, capacity and bandwidth models, systems definitions, and operational procedures as part of this process.
• Understands key business drivers and applies the knowledge of internal/external business issues to improve products and services.
• Anticipates and Interprets customer needs, assesses requirements, and identifies solutions.
• Ensures that projects are properly accepted into the Engineering team, worked on in a timely and efficient manner, and smoothly transitioned into quality assurance and operations teams.
• Interprets internal/external business issues and recommends complete solutions based on best practices and Proven technologies.
• Takes a broad perspective to identify innovative solutions.
• Provides guidance for the performance and reliability of various cross-platform applications and services. Ensures that system failures are restored in a timely manner.
• Participates in the review of failures and Provides feedback to prevent future occurrences.
• Consistent exercise of independent judgment and discretion in matters of significance.

Preferred Skills & Experience:

• Primary expertise in Java8
• Intermediate experience with scripting languages, e.g. LUA or Python
• Hands-on experience with Open-Source Software
• Expertise in consuming and producing REST APIs
• Knowledge of VoIP technologies including SIP protocol
• Knowledge of telephony software, e.g. Freeswitch, Jitsi, Broadsoft, etc. is a plus
• Working knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases
• Experience working in cloud infrastructures like AWS, Open Stack, and VMware
• Experience in SDLC
• Code review of peers and junior developers
• Scrum experience a plus.

Core Responsibilities

• Collaborates with project stakeholders to identify product and technical requirements. Conducts analysis to determine integration needs.
• Designs new software and web applications, supports applications under development and customizes current applications. Develops software update process for existing applications. Assists in the roll-out of software releases.
• Trains junior Software Development Engineers on internally developed software applications.
• Oversees the researching, writing and editing of documentation and technical requirements, including evaluation plans, test results, technical manuals and formal recommendations and reports.
• Keeps current with technological developments within the industry. Monitors and evaluates competitive applications and products. Reviews literature, patents and current practices relevant to the solution of assigned projects.
• Provides technical leadership throughout the design process and guidance with regards to practices, procedures and techniques. Serves as a guide and mentor for junior level Software Development Engineers.
• Assists in tracking and evaluating performance metrics. Ensures team delivers software on time, to specification and within budget.
• Works with Quality Assurance team to determine if applications fit specification and technical requirements.
• Displays expertise in knowledge of engineering methodologies, concepts and skills and their application in the area of specified engineering specialty.
• Displays expertise in process design and redesign skills. Presents and defends architectural, design and technical choices to internal audiences.
• Consistent exercise of independent judgment and discretion in matters of significance.
• Regular, consistent and punctual attendance. Must be able to work nights and weekends, variable schedule(s) and overtime as necessary.
• Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Employees at all levels are expected to:

• Understand our Operating Principles; make them the guidelines for how you do your job.
• Own the customer experience - think and act in ways that put our customers first, give them seamless digital options at every touchpoint, and make them promoters of our products and services.
• Know your stuff - be enthusiastic learners, users and advocates of our game-changing technology, products and services, especially our digital tools and experiences.
• Win as a team - make big things happen by working together and being open to new ideas.
• Be an active part of the Net Promoter System - a way of working that brings more employee and customer feedback into the company - by joining huddles, making call backs and helping us elevate opportunities to do better for our customers.
• Drive results and growth.
• Respect and promote inclusion & diversity.
• Do what's right for each other, our customers, investors and our communities.

Disclaimer:

• This information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees in this role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications.

Comcast is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.

Education

Bachelor's Degree

While possessing the stated degree is preferred, Comcast also may consider applicants who hold some combination of coursework and experience, or who have extensive related professional experience.

Relevant Work Experience

7-10 Years

Base pay is one part of the Total Rewards that Comcast provides to compensate and recognize employees for their work. Most sales positions are eligible for a Commission under the terms of an applicable plan, while most non-sales positions are eligible for a Bonus. Additionally, Comcast provides best-in-class Benefits. We believe that benefits should connect you to the support you need when it matters most, and should help you care for those who matter most. That's why we provide an array of options, expert guidance and always-on tools, that are personalized to meet the needs of your reality – to help support you physically, financially and emotionally through the big milestones and in your everyday life. Please visit the compensation and benefits summary on our careers site for more details.

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